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You're not paranoid, your phone actually is spying on you.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-using-people-s-phones-to-listen-in-on-what-they-re-saying-claims-professor-a7057526.html -
It's been a bad 24hrs for crocs and sharks over here... The kiwi who got taken by the croc yesterday, a young surfer lost a leg to a shark in Perth today, and a dismembered human arm was found on the sea floor out west, believed to belong to one of two missing men who disappeared while out fishing...
The Beach Boys were right, don't go near the fucking water...
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It's funny how the human mind works. Everyone is naturally scared of predators but I'd be willing to bet deaths from drowning/exposure outnumber shark and gator attacks by some margin.
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Drowning and exposure are a doddle...
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A topless woman decked as a bird hovered above actors representing the nine construction workers who died during the building of the tunnel
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Isn't that BoJo?
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dat first picture caption...
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Sheet. Who is writing season 7!?
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/elon-musk-simulated-universe-hypothesis?utm_source=mbtwitter
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One of my friends witnessed a jogger die following a heart attack on the parkland walk. He said the police had been able to respond quickly as they knew the area but the ambulance took a while longer, seemed to trouble him that being one of the handful of people who helped as best they could he couldn't give more of a location than "on the parkland walk between that bit and the bridge bit". When we walked on it a while after he then knew all the road names(he was half giving me directions too so I could cycle off after we walked a bit) but still could tell it really got to him.
I think overall the satnav use is going to help, faster routes and such for the majority of calls must improve lots of peoples situations. Like all systems it's going to have gaps and faults, having ambulance drivers and crews who don't need local knowledge has that gap of anywhere off the system or hard to describe/input into the system being hard to find and letting the system get outdated like that makes them gaps bigger.
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Surely they could have stopped and asked someone. I had ambulance crews regularly stop me when I lived on the Aylesbury Estate as they had no clue which building was where and me being able to point them in the right direction saved them driving around and around looking for it.
I tried getting to the velodrome by bike through the olympic park from the south along the canal, ended up climbing over two fences as all the roads seem to take you away from it. I now know the scenic route is shit and you can just go up the side of Westfield and get straight there.
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http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/cyclist-mla-feared-would-killed-11418285
Moron driver hits local politician. Perhaps some awareness will come of this...
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and @Fox - this is a bit late but seeign as you mentioned it - I have a Chinnok fly right by our place every Tuesday evening . It seems to be doign a sort of u-turn like it's the edge of the area it patrols. We live just off the river.
Any idea what the purpose of these flights are and why they are so regular? I've always been curious.
I do see the occassional Chinook of a weekend flying over my allotment too but they are on a different route.
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There's never going to be any substitute for drivers knowing their patch. It's no good knowing where a patient is if you don't know how to get there. Continual familiarisation with new developments and ongoing work should be a core part of any driver's working day.
However, we aren't making the best use of the technology at our disposal. With so many people carrying around mobile phones, the fallability is depending on a person to give descriptions of where they are. It seems like it would be a simple step to have an app that, at the push of a button, takes a triangulation from phone masts and records a location then enables GPS and refines that location. With small, high priority data packets it could communicate with a system used by ambulance control effectively taking the guesswork out of location. Annoyingly, I know that the all the code pretty much already exists to do this but I'm not a programmer and have no idea how you go about putting it all together.
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